Alexander of Hales

Alexander of Hales (* about 1185 in Hales; † 21 August 1245 in Paris) was a major representative of scholasticism and founder of the so-called older Franciscan school, especially the commentary of the Sentences of Peter Lombard.

After a convent education in Hales he studied the seven liberal arts and theology at the Sorbonne in Paris and taught there since the 1220er -Jahren at the theological faculty. At the University of Hales was involved in the confrontations 1229/1231 and to the convictions of some opinions of Aristotle 1241st

In the thesis of James Bisson is the meaning Alexander of Hales ' seen in the fact that "... he first used in his Summa Theologica, the whole philosophy of Aristotle as an auxiliary science. " This is explained in Bisson so that the " ... impulse to at all to deal in the theological writings at least implicitly more and more to the ethical issues in their significance and implications for the moral behavior and actions of people in their demands, [... ] since the beginning of the 13th century, already well since the end of the 12th century, was given [ by ] the disclosure of other writings of Aristotle ... ".

Alexander of Hales came to the Franciscan order in 1231 and took his chair of theology with. 1245 he participated in the first Council of Lyons and died unexpectedly after his return.

Alexander of Hales died in 1245 in Paris and was in the monastery church of the Couvent des Cordeliers (also Grand Couvent ) buried where his grave stone was seen up to the destruction of the church during the Revolution. His most famous pupil and successor in the chair was St.. Bonaventura.

Works

  • Summa Theologiae universae. - Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481 1 ( 24.I.1482 ). Generalis discursus ī Suma. 1482 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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